# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1884_S28 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 28 The Lutheran Pioneer. with good paper and good print for the price of one penny. The Outlook from the Editor’s Window. —WE have received the first number of a little Monthly which will be heartily welcomed by all our German pastors since it suppliesa want long felt in our church. The name of the Monthly is Lnturgische Monatsschrift, and its ob- ject is to present in each number liturgical _forms for such occasions as are not provided for in the Liturgy which is used in our congrega- tions. The first number brings an excellent liturgical service for the dedication of a church. The Monthly is edited by Rev. F. Lochner, of Springfield, Ill., who is known as an able judge in all questions relating to Church Lit- urgy. ‘The price is 50 cts. per annum, and all orders are to be sent to Rev. F. P. Merbitz, Box 58, Beardstown, Ill. —ANOTHER volume of Walch’s edition of Luther’s Writings has Jeft the St. Louis press, and contains the second part of the celebrated “Family Sermons” of Luther. In speaking of this volume the Workman, of Pittsburgh, —Duriné the present century 150,000,000 copies of the Bible have been printed in 226 different languages. » —Cuartes Reape, the well-known English writer, wrote his own epitaph, which is to be engraved on a plain grave-stone. In this epitaph he says, “I hope for a resurrection, not from any power in nature, but from the will of the Lord God Omnipotent, who made nature and me. He created man, which na- ture could not. He can restore man from the dust, which nature cannot. And I hope for holiness and happiness in a future life, .not for anything I have said or done in this body, but from the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ. ‘Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.’ ‘If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous; and He is the propitiation for our sins.’’” says: “The printing, paper and binding leave The Mis- souri Synod, in the publication of the “ House Postille’’ so early in the series, has wisely taken ; time by the forelock, before other and imper- > fect editions could find their way among our The two volumes, bound in one and containing nearly 3,000 pages, is sold for the absolutely nothing to be desired. people. small sum of $5.00, and 65 cents postage. This volume, or the half of the whole, is offered for $2.75, and 35 cents postage. Our German pastors could not do a more useful work than to get old Brother Martin to help them to preach in every family in their charge.’’ Ad- dress Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. : —THE graduating class in our Seminary at St. Louis this year numbered 38 students. little Pioneer intends to pay them a monthly visit in their future homes. —TuereEare 44children in our Lutheran Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Norris, Mich. ‘There is hardly room to receive all that have already applied for admission for the coming year. —Txe Wartburg Orphans’ Home, situated at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., recently celebrated its eighteenth yearly festival. On this occasion a new chapel was dedicated. The money for the erection of this building, about $6,000 in all, was contributed by an unknown friend. Sixty-two children find a Christian home in this institution. _ —A Missionary in Mexico reports that on the grogshops in that country the following frank and significant titles may be seen: ‘‘ The Vesuvius,” ‘‘The Shipwreck,” ‘‘The Delirium Tremens,’’ ‘‘The Little Hell.” the 7th of May the British and Foreign Our —Epwarp Smims, in England, is said to be the oldest organist. He was born in 1800 and performed his first service when only ten years old. Since that date, a period of 74 years, he has continued in the constant exercise of an organist’s duties, and still conducts a full choral service without assistance. —A CHURCH WITH A SINGLE MEMBER.—In the Presbytery of Lackawanna, Pa., there is a church with only one member, a woman. But she seems to be an efficient member, for the report is that during the past year that church has raised more money for the Lord’s work than many churches with fifty male members. of Pittsburg, Pa., was recently sent to the workhouse for sixty days for disturbing wor- ship in one of the local churches, The Christian Advocate admonishes ‘‘those rough boys and giggling girls who in some places disturb our worship”’ to learn a Jesson from his fate. As to dealing with such offenders, it says sternly, ““Expostulate once privately, once publicly, then turn the disturbers over to the law.’’ —TueE missionaries in Southern India report, that during the Luther Commemoration at the stations of the Basel Society the Jesuits busied themselves with distributing dirty libels against Luther among the native Christians. Rome is the same everywhere. —Dnr. Jessup said that once while visiting a Turkish official who had lived for some months as a neighbor to a brother missionary, he was told in a burst of confidence that this brother was a most remarkable man; that his conduct was, in fact, quite unaccountable, for in all the time he, the Turk, had lived next to him, separated only by a wall, he had never heard his wife scream once or make the least disturbance. That a man could live with his wife for a twelvemonth without beating her or having a family quarrel was quite incompre- hensible to the Turkish mind. —Norine the fact that a city councilman |= Short Stops. —‘‘ OrreNDED.’’—A certain pastor preached against the sins prevailing among some of his people. Thereupon the servant of a rich man came to him with the complaint: ‘‘You offended my master in your sermon to-day.’’ The pastor replied: ‘Your master would not have felt him- self offended by me, had he not been conscious of having first. offended my Master—the Lord Jesus; and if your master will persist in offend- ing my Master, then let him be offended.’’ Let all who take offense at their pastor's sermons, ask themselves, before they complain, whether they have not greatly offended the Divine Master, who directs his ministers to rebuke his offenders. —Buip Leaders of the Blind. In many a church it is as that farmer's wife told the deacon, when he asked her how things looked in the church: ‘Blind above (in the pulpit,) and blind below (in the pews): ‘‘ You walk as you are led.” — ‘Moruer,”’ said a little urchin when he came home, ‘‘I have seen such a smart preacher. He stamped and made such a noise, and then he got mad; be shook his fist at the folks, and there wasn’t any body dared go up and fight him.”’ some preachers. —TuEeE question put toa noted talkerand theo- rizer was a very apt one: ‘‘ What bave you done?”’ It is doing in the world that is val- uable; talk is cheap and fruitless. —A Jos.—He who has nothing to do in this world but to amuse himself, has got the hard- est job on hand. Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, New ORLEANS, La. EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL. 113 Annette Str,, between Claiborne and Dirbigny. Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 74 o’clock Wednesday evening. Sunday School from 2 to 4. EV. LUTH. MI. ZION CHURCH. Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs. Divine Gale at 714 Sunday evening and at 7}4 Thursday evening. Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock. Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening. : N. J. BAKKE, Missionary. St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church, Cor. Rock §- 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark. Divine service pandey, evening at 714 o'clock. Sunday School from 10—12. Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening. Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening. E. Memasnpen, Missionary. a S TERMS: Tue Lurueran Pronger is published monthly, payable in advance at the following rates, postage included, to-wit: 1 Copy nom. fo) 10 Copies +-$2.00 2 « -- 5.00 Club rates only allowed if all copies are to be sent to one address. All business communications to be addressed to “Luth. Concordia Publishing House,” M. C. Bar- THEL, Agt., St. Louis, Mo. 2 ty ‘All communications concerning the editorial de- ent to be addressed to Pror. R. A. Biscuorr, ncordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind. von A wholesome rebuke for *